Joseph Cook Resumes His Attacks on Mormonism
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Boston, Massachusetts
A brief note on lecturer Joseph Cook's popular Boston lecture series continuing its combative crusade against Mormonism.
Browse the archive
Search the full restored text of every story, then narrow by when it ran, where it happened, which paper printed it, and how NewsPipe filed it.
683 stories
Page 17 of 35
Oiling the Desert Railroad Bed
Mesa Free Press · June 29, 1900 · Yuma, Arizona
The Southern Pacific plans to spray petroleum on stretches of desert railbed to control dust, a small early experiment in industrial road treatment.
NOTICE OF CLAIM FOR REFUND OF CAPITOL LAND PATENT FEES
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A formal legal notice from Abner Taylor, contractor who built the Texas state capitol, announcing his intent to petition the legislature for repayment of over $10,000 he says he paid the state for land patents during construction.
England's Standing Army
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · United Kingdom
A brief statistical note on the size and worldwide deployment of the British Army in the mid-1880s, scattered across India, Egypt, Ireland and South Africa.
Letter from Mobile
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Mobile, Alabama
A Mobile correspondent mourns the death of Sister Mary Alphonsus of the Convent of the Visitation and reports on the state of the convent's academy, a new temperance society, and cathedral construction — a window into Gulf Coast Catholic community life in 1872.
A Tragedian's Grievance
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A fading stage actor pours out a rambling, self-justifying account of his feud with the managers of Koster & Bial's, insisting he was wronged and vowing to sue for his salary — a small, human slice of theatrical backbiting from Gilded Age New York.
Massachusetts Committee Rejects Charity Lottery Bill
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Boston, Massachusetts
A brief notice that Massachusetts lawmakers refused to let charitable groups, including the Grand Army, raise funds through prize ticket lotteries.
The Taggart Scandal
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Great Falls, Montana
A fragment of a reprinted commentary from the Great Falls Leader mocking a military scandal involving a General Taggart and his wife, accused of drunken brawling at social affairs — a glimpse of army high society gossip of 1905.
California Consolidated Petroleum Company Stock Offer
Mesa Free Press · June 29, 1900 · Los Angeles, California
A full-page investment advertisement touting a California oil company's stock offering — a vivid piece of turn-of-the-century boomtown finance hype, complete with named 'Orchard King' officers and promises of quick riches.
In Brief
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Albany, New York
A scrap of miscellaneous news notes—centenarians, a fading livestock epidemic, an Albany iron company's collapse, and silver prices—cut off by the page's damaged edge.
Norwich University Alumni Banquet
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Boston, Massachusetts
Vermont's Norwich University alumni gathered in Boston for their first banquet, celebrating the school's forty-four year history — a small but telling snapshot of 19th-century collegiate loyalty and civic boosterism.
Church Intelligence: Dedications, Camp Meetings, and Revivals
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878 · South Carolina
A roundup of local Methodist church news from 1878 South Carolina, covering a new church dedication, camp meeting revivals, and reports of conversions and church growth—an intimate glimpse of everyday religious life in the postbellum South.
Letter from Kentucky
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878 · Owensboro, Kentucky
A Methodist minister newly arrived in Kentucky reflects candidly on why his denomination lags behind rival churches there, blaming the itinerant system's frequent reassignment of preachers for the lack of a stable pastorate.
Secretary of State's Office
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A short item on the incoming Texas secretary of state's staffing choices, notable for the number of former newspapermen taking posts in the department.
Preliminary Steps
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · New York, New York
Early moves toward a statue honoring William H. Seward in Central Park, alongside a park board ruling that delays similar honors for the recently deceased Elias Howe.
Steamer Excelsior Quits the Klondike Trade
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · San Francisco, California
A short dispatch on the withdrawal of the steamer Excelsior from the Klondike gold-rush trade after the Alaska Commercial Company's charter lapsed.
Pasadena Country Club Gains Six Acres for New Golf Links
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Pasadena, California
A gift of oak-covered land from a wealthy family gave the Pasadena Country Club its golf course and clubhouse site overlooking Wilson Lake — a small window into the gilded leisure culture of 1890s Southern California.
The Man With the Gun at the Surprise Party
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Massapequa, New York
A wry 1897 anecdote about a Long Island man who greeted an uninvited "surprise party" at his door with a shotgun—a small comic dispatch on the social nuisance of the era's spontaneous house-calls.
A Little Thing—Unless You Neglect It
Southern Christian Advocate · September 21, 1878
A pointed complaint about clergymen who read Scripture aloud carelessly, arguing that poor public reading of the Bible robs congregations of its power and gives them a false impression of the text.
The Game Meeting
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A call to Austin citizens to organize hospitality for visiting delegates of the Texas Game Protective Association, a glimpse of early wildlife-conservation organizing in the state.